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Indie devs are in a tough spot: don't use AI, and watch everyone else ship games x5 faster than you or use it and be damned. I don't think there are many coders left that are not using AI agents for coding right now, it's just that effective (been coding games for 28 years, professionally for 20)

By the way I'm not pro-AI, I wish we could put the genie back in the bottle, but it's real and it's a massive change on how we do things and sticking your head in the sand is not going to do much for you, that's my entire take

It feels like deskilling at scale. Musicians practice their horns, writers write, but devs are still devs if they're just describing what they want in a Claude session?

Some people describe it as the same that happened with moving from asm to modern programming languages where the compiler does a lot for you, but it's definitely more removed than that

I don't think this is true at all assuming you're sufficently directing and vetting and editing the output. it could be true but theres nothing axiomatically true about it.

high level languages are a form of abstracting "the actual programming" and compilers are so complex nowadays that they don't even end up solving the same thing in the same way twice sometimes, I think it's still programming although it does feel less direct, oh man, things are weird.

yeah shits fucked lol

you're ultimately authoring the behavior not the code.

the code itself goes through machine translation already before executing, always, and if you wanted to run somewhere and the machine needed to change the code to keep the sake behavior you would have no problem with it